Clueless rabble? — Professor Jason Morgan's comment about the American Public and the Capitol riot

© 2021 Peter Free

 

13 January 2021

 

 

Rugby scrums and societal structure

 

A few days ago, I observed that the Capitol riot was not an insurrection because the trespassers had no plan.

 

Coups by rugby scrum do not exist.

 

 

Professor Josh Morgan . . .

 

. . . has since described American citizenry's undisciplined ignorance:

 

 

The rabble without a cause captured the castle—and then had no idea, not a single clue, what to do next.

 

The Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, the IRS—these and other “federal agencies” . . . control our lives. We live and are sent to die at their whim.

 

The person sitting in the Oval Office is the hood ornament, not the driver.

 

Trump got people killed because he couldn’t tell the difference between playing the president on TV and being the president, or the further difference between being the president and being the real power behind the throne.

 

The Capitol is a front. Not important.

 

Try breaking into the NSA building, by contrast.

 

You wouldn’t get within 10 miles of the place before being vaporized.

 

The horror and the hooliganism in Washington this week shouldn’t cause us to miss the real lesson of the really bad terrible awful day: we are all a rabble without a cause.

 

© 2021 Jason Morgan, Rabble Without A Cause, American Conservative (13 January 2021) (extracts)

 

 

Ignorance's painful price

 

Is there a large national population that notably less deserving of Liberty than the American one?

 

We know virtually nothing about anything important regarding the ways in which our country is constructed and run.

 

And we are impulsively prone to emotion-based outbursts that are easily propagandized away from accomplishing anything constructive.

 

 

The moral? — The US Capitol riot was a typical expression . . .

 

. . . of the American public's (on average) lack of insight.

 

If we cannot even recognize how we are enchained — or where the actual power lies — how probable is it that we can generate sufficient force to build a better construct?

 

"Rabble without a cause" is an arguably apt description.

 

Consider, for instance, the vapid difference between the Republican and Democratic Parties. Both are oligarchically structured and controlled. Both assist plutocrats in stealing the public's wealth.

 

One pretends to be conservative. The other, socially liberal. This difference is (Big Picture) inconsequential.

 

Yet, millions of Americans cling to one or the other of these two herds as being societally meaningful. We demonstrate this misplaced loyalty — even while our lives, wealth and futures dribble away under those two political scams.

 

Of structurally pertinent note, in the United States, a successful (unlike Trump) populist-speaking autocrat will have to come from our society's power centers. Big Tech, Wall Street and National Security Complex.

 

Trump, being an outsider of sorts — as well as analytically feeble-minded, enormously lazy and perpetually undisciplined — never had a chance.

 

His egotistical airheadedness is why Corporatists were content to use him, without fear that Trump would actually generate an effective, populist-based form of Il Duce-ism.

 

And once Trump's typifying immoral crassness cut holes in the American Oligarchy's own devils-concealing camouflage, he had to go.

 

What next?

 

If We the People want a say, we will have to recognize our structurally imposed chains. Cluelessness is not the way to Liberty.